bratawurst

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by bratawurst 7y ago
You’re describing the opposite of flattening the curve. Closing the gates now does nothing. I do not mean to be patronizing, but this is literally life or death and the math is very simple. Today there are k infected people. Tomorrow ther
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by bratawurst 7y ago
If healthcare capacity in the US becomes overwhelmed by an exponential function, every moment wasted by officials now , while the numbers are still low enough to do something real about, will turn out to have been a moment responsible for
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by bratawurst 7y ago
No! This will do nothing. How are people on HN asking this? You all know math, right?! The healthcare system is at risk of being overwhelmed by an exponential function. That means, to a first approximation, nothing matters except the last
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by bratawurst 7y ago
This seems not fully worked out. Assuming total travel is constrained, selectively limiting travel to particular areas concentrates travel in the remaining areas, which increases the average number of contacts between travelers, which viola
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by bratawurst 7y ago
This is insane. I haven’t been really scared of the pandemic yet, but if this is the response, now, I’m terrified. Changing the number of infected people entering the community does nothing when we already have transmission happening withi
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by bratawurst 7y ago
It is the two-thousand-year old word for “road”, and an English preposition . Anyone who picked it as a trademark for anything knew what they were getting themselves into.